The very foundation of Christian theology is, “God chooses, not you.” That’s the way you face your world. Aside from those who are utterly and properly dependent on you — your own children — you are completely forbidden to coerce anyone on any issue. You are, of course, required to defend His interests by whatever means the Spirit moves you to employ. Sometimes that would mean a violent defense of what He has granted you stewardship — possessions, health and life — but by no means should you expect to do so in even the majority of circumstances. It is more likely you would employ such defense on behalf of others who turn to you in trust. Most of the time, you do nothing to prevent someone else transgressing anything at all.
As a Christian, your basic assumption is certainly zero aggression and generally non-resistance. If you can’t figure that out based on how Jesus dealt with the persecution and Cross, you simply do not understand. If you are so taken with the Western cultural perversions you can’t see it’s better to have your children be martyrs than murderers, you simply don’t know Christ. He was not a Western man by any stretch of the imagination, and Jehovah is not a Western God. The Bible is not a Western document, so if you read it with Aristotelian eyes, you won’t see what it actually says. We defend our Lord’s prerogatives, not ourselves.
So is it any wonder, as a nation which coerces the world for our petty greed and paranoia, we stand condemned? Yes. The hounds of Hell have been released upon us. Given divine and spiritual workings seldom operate as we expect, we won’t see it until it’s far, far too late.
